Storyville: Season 2007
Season 11 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Storyville Season 10.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 11 Progress Shield
New York Doll
Oct 23, 2007 · 40 min
Documentary which details the turbulent history of controversial American proto-punk rockers The New York Dolls through the eyes of bassist Arthur Kane, telling the story of the ba
Abduction - The Megumi Yokota Story
Mar 22, 2007
The remarkable story of a 13-year-old Japanese girl abducted by North Korean agents while on her way home from school. For twenty years, her parents remained unaware of her fate.
Cuba! Africa! Revolution -1
Apr 24, 2007 · 85 min
First of a two-part documentary telling the story of Cuba's interventions in Africa from the 1960s onwards and the USA's response, which captures the superpower rivalry, revolution
Cuba! Africa! Revolution -2
May 1, 2007 · 85 min
Second of a two-part documentary telling the story of Cuba's interventions in Africa from the 1960s onwards and the USA's response, which captures the superpower rivalry, revolutio
Black Sun
May 22, 2007
Documentary about Hugues de Montalembert, blinded in a random street mugging in 1978, but who defied expectation and continued to travel the world, alone. Using Montalembert's own
Children of the Chinese Circus
May 29, 2007
Documentary looking at Shanghai Circus school, where the gruelling training regimes result in some of the best acrobats and circus performers in the world. Children as young as eig
How Vietnam Was Lost
Jun 4, 2007 · 85 min
Based on David Maraniss's book 'They Marched into Sunlight', a documentary telling the story of two seemingly unconnected events in October 1967 that changed the course of the Viet
RFK
Jun 5, 2007 · 85 min
David Grubin's probing and perceptive biography reassesses the remarkable and tragic life of Bobby Kennedy, whose early life was spent in the shadow of his elder brother John. Afte
Oswald's Ghost
Jun 5, 2007 · 85 min
Documentary which deconstructs the mythologies and controversy surrounding the JFK assassination. Featuring interviews with Norman Mailer, Gary Hart, Tom Hayden, Mark Lane and othe
Heirs to an Execution
Jun 6, 2007
Documentary in which Ivy Meeropol tells the story of how her family was torn apart in 1953 when her grandparents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were executed for 'conspiracy to commi
Journeys with George
Jun 7, 2007 · 85 min
Alexandra Pelosi's informal portrait of George W Bush, filmed over nearly a year as she followed the then president-to-be as part of the press corps travelling with him on planes a
Why We Fight
Jun 8, 2007 · 85 min
What are the forces that shape and propel American militarism? This award-winning film provides an inside look at the anatomy of the American war machine. Why We Fight is the provo
Laughing with Hitler
Jun 9, 2007 · 85 min
Documentary which examines the history of the Third Reich through the jokes told by and about the Nazis and the fate that befell some of the joke tellers. In the early days of the
Winged Migration
Jun 19, 2007 · 85 min
Oscar-nominated documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, filmed over the course of three years on all seven continents. Stunning techniques help contribute to this bird's ey
Paris Brothel
Jun 26, 2007 · 85 min
Mark Kidel's film looks at the unique licensed brothels of Paris which remained a central part of French life until their closure in 1946.
Kike Like Me
Jun 27, 2007 · 85 min
Documentary in which filmmaker Jamie Kastner goes on a personal journey to find out what it means to be Jewish in the modern world. Along the way he meets anti-semitic politician P
Office Tigers 1
Jun 27, 2007 · 85 min
First of a four-part series which goes inside the closed world of Western corporate outsourcing in the Indian town of Chennai. It's based around ambitious Office Tiger employees su
Office Tigers 2
Jul 4, 2007 · 85 min
Four-part series which goes inside the closed world of Western corporate outsourcing in the Indian town of Chennai. It's based around the ambitious Office Tiger employees such as A
Office Tigers 3
Jul 11, 2007 · 85 min
Four-part series which goes inside the closed world of Western corporate outsourcing in the Indian town of Chennai. It's based around the ambitious Office Tiger employees such as A
Once in a Lifetime
Jul 15, 2007 · 85 min
The seventies in America were a time of growth and experimentation. Clothes became different, hairstyles exotic, and music was heading in strange new directions. With a wave of hig
TV Junkie
Aug 5, 2007 · 85 min
Documentary about drug addiction. When he got a camera at the age of 14, Rick Kirkham began recording his life on tape. After his first break on TV he rose from local news to a job
Children and Cancer - A Lion in the House
Aug 16, 2007 · 85 min
Documentary which follows five families as they deal day-to-day with the challenges of living with children suffering from cancer, a film in which a possibly daunting and depressin
Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
Aug 29, 2007
In 1974, a teenage newspaper heiress and Berkeley undergrad was kidnapped at gunpoint from her apartment, setting off one of the most bizarre episodes in recent American history. T
Please Vote for Me
Oct 7, 2007 · 85 min
Weijun Chen's film takes us into the world of Chinese schoolchildren, learning about democracy for the first time as they try to vote for their class monitor. Elections are uncommo
Sitting for Parliament
Oct 8, 2007 · 85 min
Following Belfast artist Noel Murphy as he completes a commission to paint all 108 members of the Northern Ireland Assembly. One of eleven Storyville documentaries screened as par
Dinner with the President
Oct 10, 2007 · 85 min
Documentary in which President Musharraf explores the different worlds and influences on political life in Pakistan at a dinner in his official residence, the Army House. Labourers
Bloody Cartoons
Oct 15, 2007 · 85 min
Life and livelihood were threatened when a small Danish newspaper chose to print a selection of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Karsten Kjaer looks at the events that resu
Etre et avoir
Oct 16, 2007 · 85 min
Nicolas Philibert's documentary portrait of life in a tiny one-class primary school in the remote hills of France's Auvergne. A dedicated and inspirational teacher guides a class o
Gimme Shelter
Oct 23, 2007 · 85 min
Documentary by Albert and David Maysles recalling the events surrounding a free concert by the Rolling Stones at the Altamont Speedway outside San Francisco in 1969. Worried about
Barca - The Inside Story
Oct 30, 2007 · 85 min
Behind the scenes at FC Barcelona, during their turbulent 2003/04 season, as a new management team try to claw the club out of debt and towards glory. Barca is a study of Barcelona
Gods of Brazil
Oct 31, 2007 · 85 min
Documentary telling the story of legendary Brazilian footballers Pele and Garrincha, whose emergence following Brazil's defeat at home in the 1950 World Cup Final heralded the dawn
Power Trip
Nov 6, 2007 · 85 min
Documentary telling the story of the chaotic post-Soviet transition in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, through culture clash, electricity disconnections and blackouts. AES Corp - an
Wednesday
Nov 6, 2007 · 85 min
Film-maker Viktor Kossakovsky paints a revealing portrait of a generation growing up in a changing Russia. He returns to Leningrad to trace contemporaries and record the experience
The Madrid Connection
Nov 13, 2007 · 85 min
Documentary about the two men who became the leaders of the terrorist cell that committed the Madrid bombings of 2004, Europe's worst ever terrorist atrocity, in which 191 people d
Startup.com
Nov 20, 2007 · 85 min
Prize-winning documentary following two high-school friends over the course of a year as they begin an internet startup. A gripping tale of big money, suspense and intrigue.
The Russian Newspaper Murders
Nov 21, 2007 · 85 min
Documentary about the murders of six Russian journalists between 1995 and 2003 and the subsequent police investigation which some, including human rights lawyer Karen Nersisyan hav
Hammer and Tickle
Nov 22, 2007 · 85 min
Ben Lewis's documentary tells the real history of Communism through the jokes told by ordinary people about the oppressive Communist regimes of the Soviet Union and its satellites.
444 Days
Nov 27, 2007 · 85 min
444 Days offers a detailed insight into the troubled history between the USA and Iran, telling the story of the 1979 hostage crisis at the American Embassy in Tehran. On 4 November
My Life as a Spy
Dec 10, 2007 · 85 min
A Storyville documentary first broadcast on 24 November 2003. Director Leslie Woodhead recalls his experiences as a 19-year-old National Serviceman in the late 1950s when he was re
Mr Vig and the Nun
Dec 18, 2007 · 85 min
Documentary about 82-year-old bachelor Vig, who has never known love, and Sister Amvrosija, a young Russian nun, who by chance becomes part of his life. 50 years ago Vig bought Hes